Best underwater glue???

ahayes13 · Sep 4, 2008

okay so im wondering what do you think is the best glue/adhesive to use to glue corals underwater???

oceaninabox · Sep 4, 2008

If your dealing with underwater applications I would use a 2 part puddy compound. If your out of the water and making frags or sticking something to a rock to place in the water I would use Cyanoacrylate which is a fast acting super glue.

roshi719 · Sep 4, 2008

oceaninabox said:
If your dealing with underwater applications I would use a 2 part puddy compound. If your out of the water and making frags or sticking something to a rock to place in the water I would use Cyanoacrylate which is a fast acting super glue.

You took the words out of my mouth Perry.

Saltysteele · Sep 4, 2008

is there a specific 2-part putty compound you would use this for?

iani · Sep 4, 2008

I use apoxie sculpt for a two part mix and ic gel (cyanoacrylate). The two part stuff is only good for mounting small frags underwater. It will not hold up if you want to mount something big. Best thing to do is use the two part and ic gel together.

jerryc · Sep 4, 2008

I like the ic gel to only problems iv had with it is the caps

ahayes13 · Sep 4, 2008

well i have the cyanocrylate that i use for out of water frags. i tried the ic gel for underwater but it just sets too quickly doesnt stay sticky enough inside the blob of gel to get it to attach. where do you get the apoxie sculpt?

ofblong · Sep 4, 2008

I use the cynoacrylate glue under water and out of water. THough I apply it out of water and then when I get it to its location do a little twist and BAM its there.

ahayes13 · Sep 4, 2008

hummmm well thats what i was doing with the ic gel but several of them just didnt seem to really wanna stick... guess i will just keep at it.

labman · Sep 4, 2008

Bsi

IC-Gel gets my vote cost and being a great cyanocrylate Gel you can get it a some fish supply stores & hobby shops. I love it my hobby shop sells it for $5 a tube http://www.bsiadhesives.com/Pages/hobby/ca.html

KEEPERZ · Sep 4, 2008

ahayes13 said:
hummmm well thats what i was doing with the ic gel but several of them just didnt seem to really wanna stick... guess i will just keep at it.

I just tried the IC gel this weekend and wasn't impressed-LOCTITE gel is solid just not big enuff tubes

ahayes13 · Sep 4, 2008

well i have the small bottle of loctite maybe i will check into their gel.

oceaninabox · Sep 4, 2008

Just make sure that the sole ingredient is Cyanoacrylate

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sdietz2469 · Sep 4, 2008

i like the lock tite also.... it works way better than the ic gel, but i have to admit that they arent quite big enough, but they are way better than any other glue i have tried.... they sell them in 10 gram tubes, but i think it takes about 1/2 as much as the ic gel, and it sticks way better...
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